Note 703 — Chapter XI · MARCION

The story that he seduced a virgin is now generally held to mean merely that he corrupted the unsullied faith of the Church. Cf. Hegesippus in Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. Bk V. c. 22. So Salmon, art. cit. supra. As Neander points out (Ch. Hist. II. p. 136 note), Tertullian, had he known the story, would certainly have published it. Yet he contrasts Marcion’s chastity with the real or supposed incontinence of his follower, Apelles (de Praescript. c. XXX.).